When standing in the ruins of the houses which once stood at Viewforth, east of Lower Largo, I cannot help but imagine what it might have been like to live there. I think the answer depends upon when you lived there, who you were and what you did for a living. The idea of being someone like the artist Hugh Cameron, who often spend summers there, sitting in a studio painting scenes inspired by the above view is very appealing. However, the thought of being one of the handloom weavers or fishermen that were recorded there in the 1841 census is less so. Working there during a cold, dark winter would be entirely different from being a summer visitor taking the sea air and going bathing.
Going further back, imagine the arduous work of the salters of the 18th century. Standing over hot pans of sea water and shovelling coal and salt must have been exhausting. This National Library of Scotland footage from 200 years later at another salt works gives an impression of the type of labour involved...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZZu23SaF04
Going further back, imagine the arduous work of the salters of the 18th century. Standing over hot pans of sea water and shovelling coal and salt must have been exhausting. This National Library of Scotland footage from 200 years later at another salt works gives an impression of the type of labour involved...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZZu23SaF04
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